End Of Winter Detecting

[Randy Lunn]

I have been in denial, but with temperatures hitting over 100 degrees on a daily basis I finally have to admit the winter detecting season in the Southern California and Arizona deserts is over. It has been a fun year, and I have met a lot of good people through the clubs I belong to, Bill Southern's YouTube patreon group and just randomly in the middle of nowhere.  I have detected mostly with the GPX 6000 and GM 1000.

I just love getting out into nature. The thrill of being in a beautiful area with the sense of adventure and the chance to find stuff is exhilarating. My best gold finds were a patch of eight small nuggets in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, a 4.1 gram nugget with two small nuggets (.2 and .3 grams) each nestled less than six inches away near Yuma, a 17 gram complete chondrite meteorite with regmaglypts and contraction cracks from Coyote Dry Lake, a "perfect" old tin can with solder seam and applied top, a mule shoe found at the top of a high hill in the middle of the Vulture Mountains in Arizona and a bird band in Gold Basin that I reported. I got a bunch of other small nuggets but the artifacts and animals really help me get through those days when I get skunked. 

   

 

I will be making trips to Northern Nevada and the Yuba this summer. See you there!

 

 

 

 

[Andyy]

Great pics.  Now here is someone who knows how to show off their finds!  I go straight to the pics and tend to skip over the words.. (I read those last ?)

[Lunk]

1 hour ago, Randy Lunn said:

I just love getting out into nature. The thrill of being in a beautiful area with the sense of adventure and the chance to find stuff is exhilarating.

Couldn’t have said it better, Randy. Congrats on the nuggets and other finds. That’s a beaut of a chondrite, they don’t get more perfect than that.

[Valens Legacy]

Very nice finds for all the hard work you put into the hunt.

Good luck on your next outing and stay cool.

[Gold Catcher]

Great post, Randy, and congrats to your beautiful collection. 100-105 deg F is my limit too. I still try to do some detecting under these conditions but I will remain very close to my truck with frequent breaks. Let me know when you come up here and I will take you to the high Sierra's. Looking forward to catch up my friend!

Best, GC

[beatup]

well done , love that region down there

[LuckyLundy]

Randy, great finds!  I’m always looking for them cooler ? nuggets too!

 

[rvpopeye]

Some nice finds ,,,,and GOLD too ! 

All meteorites are just cool , and also alien space invaders that we get to capture . 

Looks like you had some company out there .....?

I bet the goat was tough to dig up , and what was the target ID on the turtle ?? 

 

[Gerry in Idaho]

Love your description of how you enjoy the outdoors.  The ability to get out and swing a detector in pursuit metal treasures/history and at the same time... seeing some wildlife many folks only view on TV, is what keeps so many of us going.

Love the gold, the meteorite is MINT, and the rustic mining trash.  The bird band is always a thrill when doing the research.

Great short story and pics...  Looking forward to seeing your view from this summer in NV and upper CA.